Missing Child- Aisling Symes

If you have any information about missing girl Aisling Symes you can contact the New Zealand Police on 0800 4 247 5464 The Help Find Aisling Symes website provides more information, videos and pictures that can help...

500 Children Abducted Every Year In The UK

Nearly 500 children were kidnapped from the United Kingdom and taken abroad last year. These cases generally involve parents from different countries who split up, one parent taking their children to their home country without consent from the other. 336 cases of child...

Pakistan 'Rescues' Child Soldiers

Pakistan military working in the Swat Valley have rescued child soldiers held by the Taliban.  It appears that they were being groomed as child soldiers and as suicide bombers by the Taliban. " They have been brainwashed and trained as suicide bombers, but the nine who I...

Amber Alert Issued in Nevada for 4 Children Abducted by Mother

An Amber Alert has been issued in the area of Washoe County Nevada for four children that have been abducted by their non-custodial mother Claire Tourand. "The victims may be with their non-custodial mother Claire ...

Sri Lankan reporter 'kidnapped'

A female Tamil reporter named Krishni Ifam was kidnapped by armed men in white van. White van abductions are very common in sri lanka, which are by groups linked to government. " A Sri Lankan journalist says she was kidnapped from outside her home in the capital Colombo and...

Sri Lanka : Crime, Disease and Celebrations

Crime, Diseases and Celebrations  - A rare combo one can find in the island Sri Lanka. The following are few of the incidents that happened in a week:"" The above doesn't include the abduction of an...

Murder Of Child Leaves Community Traumatized (part 2)

While people elsewhere are worried about the economic recession, parents in Woodstock are most concerned about the safety of their children.  Since the after school abduction and reported murder of 8 year old Tori Stafford there is a deep insecurity among parents.  With...

Sri Lanka silencing voices

Sri Lanka: Avoid a Postwar Witch Hunt- Human Rights Watch Enforced disappearances and killings of people suspected of being LTTE supporters also occurred in association with the government's taking of...

Murder Of Child Leaves Community Traumatized (pt 1)

A Chaplain recently posed the question, Is Woodstock clinically depressed?  Stephanie Van Troost owner of a Woodstock toy store answers “yes, the whole city is sad!”  She states a noticeable difference in the frame of mind of her customers and that sales...

Tamil children 'being abducted' from detention camps

Tamil childrens from the detention camps in sri lanka are being abducted by gangs linked to the government. As there is no independent monitors in these fully army controlled camps, the children are under huge...

Tori Stafford Case Upgraded to Murder

A possible breakthrough in the case of missing Woodstock, Ontario school girl, Tori Stafford happened this morning with the arrest and arraignment of two suspects. " WOODSTOCK -- Two people have been charged with...

UN Hostage released in West Africa.

By, Uwe Paschen.  The U.N. news centre confirms the release of Robert H. Fowler and Louis Guay abducted and held Hostage in Niger since last December 14th 2008, when they where kidnapped 40 km of this country...

Missing Toddler Elise André Found in Hungary With Her Mother

Three-year-old Elise André was violently abducted from the custody of her father Jean-Michel André on March 20 of this year in the city of Arles in France. The girl’s father suspected that his estranged wife and Russian citizen Irina Belenkaya was behind the kidnapping of...

Taliban Still Holding Canadian Hostage Beverly Giesbrecht

    Toronto's Globe and Mail reports that the Taliban has shelved their plans to behead Canadian hostage Beverly Giesbrecht (aka Khadija Abdul Qahaar), but she is still being held in an unknown tribal...

Has the Tamil Diaspora any conscience at all?

Prabhakaran has been destroying the Northern and Eastern Tamil children over a period of more than 25 years. Little boys and girls have been kidnapped and forcefully trained to kill, trained to hate, who should...

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